This is what the world’s richest person has done and he’s only been rewarded since then.

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

We wanna get every interested collaborator paired up with someone ASAP for our 9th issue. Now we need someone in EST or willing to work across zones! Deadline for the project is April 30th so there's still time to sign up! forms.gle/XNxkumZUDpQ8...

Many of the photos that have come out of the moon mission so far were taken by crew members. NASA says the crew is getting guidance from scientists on what to capture when they get closer to the moon. n.pr/4c6V8Dg

Audrey Watters on Mary Oliver, poetry, and AI technologies: "At what point can you no longer even plan to do things with your one wild and precious life because these technologies have obliterated your ability to even imagine something outside their dictates, their designs for you?"

A brand-new poem with a ridiculously long title — “Flipping Back and Forth Between the #Artemis II Launch Live Stream and the Live Stream of the Supreme Court Hearing Arguments Regarding #Birthright Citizenship” — just published at @newversenews.bsky.social newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/04/flip...

Thuhhh-reaaaad 🧵

A nice piece from @swapnakrishna.com about the plan for the #Artemis II crew to take a new Earthrise photo while swinging around the Moon

Donald Trump and the GOP gave our nation's wealthiest a $5 TRILLION tax cut. That's more than enough to cover these costs. That's what he's prioritized over your health and child care. Here are some other things Trump has prioritized:

Got a new poem up at the always-affecting @rogueagent.bsky.social -- one about being a #fat in a world that does not tend to accommodate. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lahl-2

Got a new poem up at the always-affecting Rogue Agent -- one about being a #fat in a world that does not tend to accommodate. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lahl-2

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

This is so cool. #artemis

That’s one hell of a cover…..

Salty teeth, cold briskets, and tart & sweet… RA issue 133 is here! All new poetry including @surlyacres.bsky.social @clayrebenz.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @melaniemccabe.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social with art by @rachelturney.bsky.social🌻 // rogueagentjournal.com/issue133

Someone smarter than I am ought to attempt a #contrapuntal poem engaging with / harnessing the simultaneity of the Supreme Court arguments re: birthright citizenship and the #Artemis II countdown. I know there's something there, but my brain can't poem it. Maybe later. Or maybe you should try.

private equity is sucking the life out of everything around us

Once again, the stock market is not "the economy;" it's a mood ring for the plutocracy

Surveillance is a one-way ratchet toward authoritarianism. Yes, even by private companies. Even when people “consent.” Even when the company gives you “free” stuff, or let you stand in a shorter line, or make your life more convenient somehow.

‘…until I find you asleep in the long, dry grass with dragonflies drinking the sweat off your arms.’ Just love the heartbreaking structure of this new flash from @thorntonforreal.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social 🚜 bulbregion.com/You-and-Me-a...

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

Toni Morrison said she didn’t want to be out in the streets protesting. And said she chose cultural work—editing—as her political contribution, to help keep a record of the struggle. And she didn’t condescend to protestors or minimize her work. She understood it was different but equally important.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

I just read this poem several times in a row because I liked it so much! The ending is so fabulous. I admire and am moved by many poems -- but sometimes I also wish I had WRITTEN a poem I read -- I think this is one of those. It speaks to me and somehow it invites me to speak (back).

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

Co-sign. PLEASE stop making AI images . . . of ANYTHING.

Your friendly reminder from Kevin Walling that every Democrat in the House voted for National Voter ID included in the Freedom to Vote Act. Not one Republican voted for it. The SAVE Act isn’t about Voter ID, it’s a voter suppression bill to help rig the midterms for Republicans.

"...everything I write, of course, / Is an extended metaphor for something I never mention." – Hugh MacDiarmid

JUST IN: Judge Shah in Illinois has blocked the Trump admin from yanking $600m in public health funds from four blue states, saying it appeared to be a “contrived” and illegal effort to punish them for sanctuary immigration policies storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“ I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.

I wrote a poem about various "ground zeros" and also about "air zero," which I learned about while writing the poem. I'm grateful that River Heron Review chose it to include in their latest issue. www.riverheronreview.com/issue-91#/li...

Just me on my usual nonsense. lizahl.com/2026/03/10/t...

Sigh. uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780909...

Like, I just would love one day without this shit inserting itself into my life in the most judgmental, derailing ways. I don't care what decisions others make about their looks. But I would like a day off, where I'm not forcibly reminded that so many people are sprinting away from looking like me.

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations. May this set a precedent. Remote work should be accessible to all who need it. It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

imagine being a family member seeing your mother or father with an AI hand up their corpse making their mouth flap for a subscription fee and you didn't give a single shred of consent

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

"Unbridled convenience rots the soul" is such a perfect way to summarize how I feel about AI and other tech/cultural developments in the last ~10 years. Why do you need a YouTube video to explain the ending of a film?? It doesn't matter what other people think it meant, what did YOU make of it??

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

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The technical term for this is shit show

i’ll just keep posting variations on elementary human decency, not that it matters

Etcetera etcetera we are all LowerEd www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

I still can’t believe we have a Fox News host running our military.